


If you find yourself racing between multiple people for nodes, turn around and go the other way. Also, it may not end well for you if on a pvp realm. By racing them to the node, not only do you risk not getting it, but you risk in not getting the next one as well. Go on your merry way and get the next one. If someone is racing you to a node, just let them have it. Here are some tips that might prove helpful and to keep in mind when mining (anywhere): I usually only have to go maybe 3 or 4 times around Uldum before I have 10 or so stacks of elementium and 3 or 4 stacks of pyrite ore. In the Carlin, Nevada, gold deposit, arsenian pyrite contains up to 0.37 wt% in gold.Ĭomment by 803859Below is the most common route in which I farm for gems, ore and volatile. Gold and arsenic occur as a coupled substitution in the pyrite structure. Despite being nicknamed fool's gold, pyrite is sometimes found in association with small quantities of gold. Pyrite is usually found associated with other sulfides or oxides in quartz veins, sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock, as well as in coal beds, and as a replacement mineral in fossils. By Georgius Agricola's time, the term had become a generic term for all of the sulfide minerals. In ancient Roman times, this name was applied to several types of stone that would create sparks when struck against steel Pliny the Elder described one of them as being brassy, almost certainly a reference to what we now call pyrite. The name pyrite is derived from the Greek πυρίτης (puritēs), "of fire" or "in fire", from πύρ (pur), "fire". Pyrite is the most common of the sulfide minerals. The color has also led to the nicknames brass, brazzle and Brazil, primarily used to refer to pyrite found in coal.

This mineral's metallic luster and pale-to-normal, brass-yellow hue have earned it the nickname fool's gold because of its resemblance to gold. The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, is an iron sulfide with the formula FeS2.
